to well up at this (plus your own welling up confessions please)

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I'm taking some Brownies to an old people's home to sing some carols and Christmas songs. dds and I have just been practising Winter Wonderland. for those of you not intimately acquainted with Winter Wonderland it's really quite a gorgeous 1930s song, with lovely instrumentals, about a young couple in love, gallivanting (innocently, of course) in the snow and then day dreaming about their future by the fire. and yep, I'm struggling to get through it...just thinking of my lovely dds and the other lovely Brownies singing and the lovely old people reminiscing...

bratnav, I thought I was the only one who cried at Liam's face in that precise moment of Love Actually! You can just hear him thinking, "steady on", and it gets me every time!

I cried at A Christmas Carol in the theater yesterday.

I cry during the Green Mile.

Old dogs and old men/ladies as well.

James Herriot's dog stories.

Thoughts of my grandfather. He used to send me buckeyes (conkers???) b/c they're considered good luck in his part of the country and I'd never seen them in Minnesota before. Then after he died, we moved to a new house with a tree full of them in the front yard. I tear up a bit watching DS play with them because my grandpa would have loved him so much.

Rememberance Day gets me every year- last year we went to the Sunday Parade. Just standing watching the veterans laying their wreaves left me sobbing.

Marley and me- we enjoyed the film so much but the end!! Even Dp had a little blub- we have a much loved dog who's almost as mad as Marley was. I felt so guilty that the Dc's got so upset.

Last week I went to my Mum's, she'd been sorting out loads of bits in the loft and had got all my Nan's bits out- she had a button tub- a big jar full of spare buttons I used to love playing with when I was little. Also her sewing tin with her old pincushion in. When I lifted the lids off both I got the most amazing smell of the Gloria Vanderbilt perfume she used to wear. I spent the next 10 mins standing there sniffing the pincushion and button jar like mad, loving the smell but crying as I miss her so much (she died 11 years ago).

My Dc's gave me big hugs, sadly not understanding why I was crying, so cue more blubbing explaining to them why I was upset and what my lovely Nan was like.

I'm not normally the sort to cry.

IrritableGrizzly That's the one...
Even more so now because I will think of your story too.

I cry at that bit in the Sound of Music where the Captain and Maria are showing the children how to do some dance outside the ball and realise they're in lurve.

But then I cry during Seaside Rescue, Helicopter Rescue, any of that sort of thing. I was a vale of tears during Up. Recently I cried when I heard Mr Blue Sky by ELO because it reminded me so much of DS3 - who is alive and well. In my defence - I'm 43.

I'm a wreck, big ol tearstained fiz... have to pick DS up from rugby now too.

Am too pregnant and too at work to read all this thread...

wipes tears out of hair, tries to pretend she has something in her eye

I cried at the weekend when I found the cup and saucer that DH's Grandmother liked to have her tea (very milky, ony DH or FIL ever got it right), she died 10 days ago. I suddenly realised that she wouldn't be at our house for CHristmas as planned and that everyone else had mugs of tea/coffee.

I had no idea that dogs and old men made people cry! I'm a big blubber but I rarely cry at dogs and old men.

I second most of the other stuff though, esp. the Railway Children. I can think of some more random sad things on telly -

Years ago when Big Brother used to still be good, when they switched the lights off at the end and had the housemate's voices all ghostly sounding.

That bit in One Foot in the Grave where she visits the old blind man, and ends up having to pretend to him that his family have written to him from Australia.

Anybody ever watch Early Doors? There were loads of teary bits on that too.

Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins.

Oh I blub at anything
I cried at the goodnight song on cbeebies , my ds is slowly getting too old for it and it suddenly hit me that after nine yrs of watching it with my dc this was nearly the end...sob!
That 'fix you' song by coldplay
That bit in toy story 2 where the girl cowboy sings that song about the girl who used to love her then grew up
I cried at HSM ffs! I'm completely wet since i had the dcs

Anyone else cry at the Carphone Warehouse ads from ages ago with the poor tiny abandoned phone?

Susan Boyle had in me in tears in the car with her new song Wild Horses the other day. I did not know at the time is was her, not that it matters, but it just made me cry. Thankfully it was dark and no one could see. DH asked me when I got home if I had been crying and when I told him why he guffawed his cup of tea down his chin.

He crys when a football player gets stretchered off in agony.

OMG yes the Carphone Warehouse on with the old phone, left alone for a new glitzy one, then I was angry at the 'throw away society' angle of it all.

Early Doors, yes!

The Royale Family one where Denise goes into labour and Jim Royale has that talk with her in the bathroom. I am snot dripping sobbing at that one. My Dad died before I was pregnant and I know that is just what he would have said to me.

Gulp, sob, tissue please.

I cried almost everyday walking home from the Nursing home where I used to work.

fields of barley song, cancer ads on tv, the news, bl;oodly anything that is slightly sad I need to grow some cast iron nails

I second the toy story 2 song, so tragic, same as with the end of the winnie the pooh stories and Christopher Robin going off to school. Did anyone read the giving tree? I can't read it to ds, I cry every time. DH can't read it either for the same reason! Yes also Northern lights. In fact if I were to write a list I'd be here all month, but it seems to boil down to loss, kids disapointing parents, kids growing up. Oh also the little prince book.

Oh and I can't watch starving children in africa ads, drink driving ads, cancer ads etc. I change the channel

Any pics of footage of young army widows and children etc. Found that was the only bit of the festival of remembrance I could not watch.

Because I am an army wife myself and desperately hope I don't join them

My dd's faces when DH came back from Afghanistan last year after six months.

Read about blue whale population starting to recover from near extinction and had to lock myself in loo in pub I was sobbing so hard. Pregnant and look quite a lot like a whale, so maybe that's why.

I'm sure you're beautiful and glowing Lucky!

I third the Toy Story 2 song. Tragic!

The seven year olds singing "God Bless the USA" at our Veteran's Day program this morning.

Up, Marley and Me, the end of the Incredible Journey when the old dog comes limping up.

Dead Poets' Society - when, one by one, they all stand on their desks and say "Oh Captain, my Captain".

ET, when Elliot thinks ET had died and again at the end when they say goodbye to each other.

Barber's Adagio for Strings. Every time.

Team Hoyt.

I read The Little Matchstick Girl when I was younger, I've avoided it ever since. It's bloody tragic

1. 'Peepo' makes me well up every time, the thought of maybe some of his family dying in the war...
2. War generally,
3. Grave yards and the inscriptions on grave stones
4. groups of young school children
5. all the NSPCC ads
6. when my little girl does 'jumping' but her feet never leave the floor
7. 'in the bleak midwinter'
8. 'Jerusalem'
9. the National anthem

Can't read 'guess how much I love you' without crying.

When my DD was 3 she was terrified of dark slides, one day in a soft play centre she came running out of nowhere and shouted at the top of her voice 'I DID IT MUMMY, I DID IT'!!!
I was so chocked up I couldn't answer-the other parents must of thought I was so mean!

ooooo this is one of the discussions of the day. in 7 odd years of mn-ing that's the second time for me. how exciting.